Mission Network News

We turn next to Venezuela where the December mudslides are being called the worst natural disaster in South American in the last century. International Aid's Sonny Enriquez just returned from that country. He says they're taking a two-pronged approach to attacking the disaster. "First, is the immediate response to their current situation, and this is predominately to emergency relief commodities. Now the plan of the government is to set up new communities. That's where we would like to see how we could be of help to the church partners and their new communities, specifically in the area of health care." Enriquez says when they help physically, people open up to the Gospel as did one of their military escorts. "This military escort was observing us all throughout the trip and then at the end he said tell me something more about what you're doing. And, again, the team just came to him and started sharing and later one he says I'd like to be a Christian too."